This one's along the lines of the Software Box, pretty much the same steps, a little more work though. Please forgive the crappy cover that I made (In the deep? Double-U Tee Eff!).
Step 1: New document, bigger the better (mine's 1500x1500). Though too big and your system may not be able to handle it so efficiently.
Step 2: Paste (Ctrl+V) your book cover into the document (open book cover. Ctrl+A. Ctrl+C)
Step 3: Resize (Ctrl+T for Free Transform) it to a manageable size and then right click in the middle of the image while still in Free Transform. Select Perspective.
Step 4: Move the Middle-Right anchor upwards like shown below.
Step 5: Create a new layer (Ctrl+Shift+N) "Side Cover". Now, draw a thin rectangle with the Rectangular Marquee (M) tool and fill (Shift+F5) with black. Ctrl+T and then use Perspective to drag the Middle-Left anchor upwards.
Step 6: Create a new layer "Back Cover". Draw another rectangle about the size of the book cover and fill it with 50% Grey.
Step 7: Ctrl+T on the new rectangle and Ctrl+drag each
corner to make it look like the back of the book. Right-Click on this layer and go to Blending Options > Stroke. Give a thick stroke of about 4px with a darker grey colour.
Step 8: Now to create the pages in between. Create a new layer "Page" and draw a rectangle the size of the cover. Fill it with white. Make sure this layer is above the "Back Cover" but below the "Front Cover" and "Side Cover". Resize it just like the back cover, only a little lower.
Right click on Page and select Blending Options. Select Stroke and give the following settings. These are very approximate.
Step 9: Duplicate the "Page" layer (Ctrl+J) and move it a little lower. Duplicate again, and move little lower. Do this over and over till it looks like there are lots of pages in between...
Step 10: Just above the "Background Layer" create a new layer. Press D to reset your colours. Right-Click > Blending Options > Gradient Overlay and then select the "Foreground to Background" gradient. Also select "Reverse" to make the black on top with white at the bottom.
Step 11: Next, create a new layer "shadow" and use the Polygonal Lasso Tool (L) to create a shadow area.
Step 12: Use the gradient tool with "Foreground to Transparent" selected in the menu bar. Now keep dragging till you get it right. If it's not what you wanted, Ctrl+Z and then drag again.
Step 13: Deselect the Marquee (Ctrl+D) and then use the eraser tool to smoothen out the edges.
Done!
Alternates:
Basically the same steps, different pespective.
Same steps. Only modify Step 4 such that you Ctrl+drag the Upper right/left corners apart.
As usual, comments are always appreciated...
Photoshop: 3D Book
Re: Photoshop: 3D Book
Linear Mode
